I should learn to keep my big mouth shut. I recently said on the OOTP forums that the FOSP was on indefinite hold and I had no plans to revisit in the immediate future. Then a few people on the… Continue Reading →

Happy spring! Well it’s been almost a year since version 0.2 of the OOWP was released so I think it’s time to give a little update on the state of the project. Despite both an extended summer break and… Continue Reading →

It’s kind of annoying to me that Dojo SelectBoxes do not have the ability to select all items with a single function call. It’s kind of strange. I can understand their connection to data stores to keep the data, but… Continue Reading →

PHP 5.4 has been percolating the web now for a few months and I wanted to dive in deep and understand what the big changes are for my longtime favorite coding language. I do like java a lot and Ruby… Continue Reading →

Just came across an excellent post about a successful Branch and Release process for Git posted by developer Vincent Driessen. I found it following the read me docs for the Pyro CMS project (thanks @philsturgeon). Read Vincent’s Complete Article: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

I want to show how Bonfire allows for easy upgrades and installation of additional modules via the Database Migrations feature. WHAT ARE MIGRATIONS? Migrations are organized ways for the Bonfire library to make database upgrades and downgrades without requiring the site administrator to execute… Continue Reading →

Version 0.2 is a incremental feature and bug fix release of the OOWP. It is released for download to the OOTP forums on Friday May 25, 2012. Version 0.2 includes the following changes: Bonfire OOWP Fork Update Numerous bug fixes… Continue Reading →

In step 1 of this tutorial, we began our journey down the rabbit hole of module development by first creating a module using the Module Builder tool, adding permissions and a custom database setting entry via a Bonfire Migration and creating… Continue Reading →

If you’re like me, you do most of your development work on a local desktop environment. For me, that means running the latest version of VertrigoServ on a Windows 7 desktop using a copy of PHPStorm and the Git command… Continue Reading →

Building modules on the ootp open web platform is a fast way to get right to building the type of tool you want to create. For the third part of the oowp developer tutorials, I am going to demonstrate this… Continue Reading →